The 9-minute iPhone snooze explained

our iPhone will never let you snooze for a full ten minutes and there is a strange reason for this.

It all goes back to the days of analogue clocks - sort of a homage to history.

On popular Q&A website, Quora it is explained that early clocks and watches had gears that made it difficult to set a snooze for exactly 10 minutes.

So, they always aimed for less than 10 minutes, which became the next best: 9 minutes.

And then when digital clocks came about, it was easier to code a 9-minute snooze.

This is because all they had to do was take the last digit of the previous alarm (say, 5), subtract 1 (now 4), and set the new alarm to go off the next time that number came up. So, 6:45 --> 6:54, and so on.

So, if you have an iPhone, you're just going to have to live without that extra minute every morning!

It still makes hardly any sense to us. Just give us the extra minute!

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